how to match folder URLs with Redirect Wildcards...

hi,
i want to redirect all URLs for my site to a single page "/index.htm".
The URLs i want to capture are either .html files or folder URLs, such
as /Folder1/Folder2/

i have the web site set to "a redirection to a URL" with "the exact URL
entered above" ticked.
the best i can do so far is as follows:

*;*.html;/index.htm

this catches all the .html files and sends them to /index.html.
however, when i try to match a folder URL to the list, it doesn't catch
folder URLs. this is what i tried:

*;*.html;/index.htm;*/;/index.html

obviously the IIS expression parser doesn't like */ for some reason.
can anyone suggest another way?
thanks in advance
tim.
p.s. why do all the examples in the IIS docs start with *;
the docs say the expression should be pairs of values, separated with a
semi-colon. but all the examples have an odd number of values so they
aren't exactly pairs!

Frank
Thu Aug 24 00:35:08 CDT 2006

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Tim_Mac wrote:
> hi,
> i want to redirect all URLs for my site to a single page "/index.htm".
> The URLs i want to capture are either .html files or folder URLs, such
> as /Folder1/Folder2/
>
> i have the web site set to "a redirection to a URL" with "the exact URL
> entered above" ticked.
> the best i can do so far is as follows:
>
> *;*.html;/index.htm
>
> this catches all the .html files and sends them to /index.html.
> however, when i try to match a folder URL to the list, it doesn't catch
> folder URLs. this is what i tried:
>
> *;*.html;/index.htm;*/;/index.html
>
> obviously the IIS expression parser doesn't like */ for some reason.
> can anyone suggest another way?
> thanks in advance
> tim.
> p.s. why do all the examples in the IIS docs start with *;
> the docs say the expression should be pairs of values, separated with a
> semi-colon. but all the examples have an odd number of values so they
> aren't exactly pairs!
>